Is ChatGPT A Threat To Human Intelligence? You Are Not Intelligent If You Think That – Get Intuit!

Today, from Ramon Yedra’s Facebook sharing, I can sense that the physical presence and actual use of robots with artificial intelligence (AI) are now both enchanting and dis-enchanting humans.

Jack Kelly says, “Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence” (31 March 2023, Forbes, forbes.com):

If generative AI lives up to its hype, the workforce in the United States and Europe will be upended, Goldman Sachs reported this week in a sobering and alarming report about AI's ascendance. The investment bank estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished by this fast-growing technology.

That’s a big “If.”

In “What Is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?” (undated, TechTarget, techtarget.com), Ed Burns, Nicole Laskowski & Linda Tucci say:

The term AI… refers to the simulation of human intelligence by machines. It covers an ever-changing set of capabilities as new technologies are developed. Technologies… include machine learning and deep learning.

I Man say, “Machine learning is memory work, that’s all, logic and all.”

OpenAI says its creature ChatGPT can “generate creative writing pieces” (“ChatGPT: Revolutionary Chatbot by OpenAI,” 2023, chat-gpt.org/#). Huh?

Thomas Reese writes, “Help! I Have Been Replaced By An AI” (31 March 2023, National Catholic Reporter, ncronline.org). Fair warning to humans? Mr Reese says:

After I sent a Jesuit lawyer an analysis from the Brookings Institution on how rapid advances in artificial intelligence could revolutionize the legal profession, he got even by asking ChatGPT to write "a column on AI, written in the style of Thomas Reese, SJ."

The robot made use of the weekly columns Mr Reese has been writing for more than 20 years, he says. Here is the first paragraph of that AI draft (unedited):

As a Jesuit priest, I have always believed that our human capacity for reason and thought is one of the greatest gifts that we have been given. In the last few decades, however, we have witnessed a new and powerful tool emerge: artificial intelligence (AI). While AI has undoubtedly brought about a host of benefits, it has also given rise to concerns about its impact on human dignity and autonomy.

“Good first draft,” Mr Reese says. As a creative writer & teacher, I Frank A Hilario say:

Whatever your AI, it simply/complicatedly makes sense of what is already there – it cannot add anything new. It does not, it cannot add any insight to what it generates from what is already there. AI does not get intuit! No threat to human creative thinking, only to critical thinking.

Let your ChatGPT find out how many intelligences humans have, and who is the human who got intuit – ChatGPT has only a single intelligence. It’s as simple – and complicated as that.

As a creative writer, certainly I am not bothered. Certainly, ChatGPT is lightning-fast, composing text and judging-correcting with logical and mathematical precision, but it adds nothing new, generates no original insight by itself. Only a human can have insights, plural. Insight is not mechanical. Think, Human – get Intuit!@517
(“Insight” from formpl.us/blog)